Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Owner of holistic Store Format Plans, Including SIS’s working closely with Concept-To-Consumer (CTC), Range Architecture (RA), CTC Category Planning team and Sales Teams to populate and deploy key Brand concepts for SEA countries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Combine/validate category assortment plans from CTC category planning, and finalize into a holistic, full store format assortment plan.
• Sense-check, feedback and confirm the final output of each store format against brand and commercial objectives (product type, launch flow, marketing calendar, mandatory range, retail space, consumer journey, etc.)
• Output all merchandising boards for all store formats
• Handover assortment plans to VM Prep for output of VM renderings
• Handover assortment plans to Sales for store level planning and depth completion
• Deliver category assortment plan presentations at Seasonal Sales Summit and provide material and support for Sales Training, KA Pre-lines, Trade Meeting
• Sample merchandising / Management together with CTC Category and VM for Sales Training, KA Pre-lines, Trade Meeting for all SEA countries.
• SI & ST tracking & analysis
• Drive Team performance and development culture through #MYBEST
• Drive employee engagement, leading by example

Key Relationships:

• Other departments in APAC CTC
• SEA and Country Sales/Retail Team
• APAC/SEA Brand Activation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Marketing, merchandising and/or retail experience, with a distinct track record of success
• Strong presentation/communications skills
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Solid merchandising experience with retail end in mind
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Channel or retail experience will be preferred

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• 6-8 Years relevant working experience preferred
• Fluent in English
• Fluent in local language (if applicable) preferred
• Passion for sports